Woohoo! Pizza and beer vending machines

June 18th, 2012

Appliance News

At long, long last Homer Simpson’s silent prayers have been answered as his favourite daily essentials become available in two vending machines: one for beer, the other for pizza.

For the beer, Homer will have to travel to Argentina where the more liberal South American bars now have Rugbeer, a vending machine for beer that requires it to be tackled before it releases the can of brew.

It has a “pussy meter” on the front that lights from red (pictured with a rooster) to green (pictured with an ox) and only a good shove or a tackle (preceded by a coin or two, of course) will release a can of beer. Given that Homer has more belly than brawn we’re not sure if this is the ideal machine for him.

The (hilarious and genius) idea comes from Cerveza Salta and creative marketing agency Ogilvy. According to the beer company, bars with the Rugbeer machine have seen a 25 per cent increase in sales.

Perhaps more up Homer’s ally is the Let’s Pizza vending machine that produces a 10.5-inch pizza in under three minutes, for under $6.

Home won’t have to travel far for this one as Let’s Pizza is being introduced to the US after successful trials in Europe.

The most surprising thing about this machine is that it prepares the pizza from scratch. This means mixing, kneading and rolling the dough out flat before adding toppings, which are refrigerated in single-serving packages and used as required. After paying, customers can select from four kinds of pizza with a choice of plain, pepperoni, ham or bacon, with or without tomato.

The pizza is then cooked in an infrared oven and popped into a take-away box. All of this – prepared and cooked in two and a half minutes – can be seen from a small viewing window.